Ravishankar Shivani is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Shivani has more than 16 years of experience in handling pharmaceuticals quality management systems and has been with Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., India since 2007.  Currently, Shivani is Deputy General Manager in the Quality Management group and is accountable for pharmaceutical quality control and validation functions including laboratory controls, change control, deviation/OOS handling, process and cleaning validation, facility and equipment qualification, stability programs, technology transfer, investigations, documnetation control and supporting regulatory filing.  Prior to joining Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., he worked in different capacities involving quality management with AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited, Wintac Limited and MicroLabs Limited at Bangalor.  Shivani received his post graduate degree in microbiology from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India in 1998.